Steve LacyFeaturing: George Lewis
Futurities (2LP)
LabelHat Hut RecordsGenreJazz & Improvisation
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condition (records/cover): NM / EX
Special cardboard box. Postcard included.
Settings of poems by Robert Creeley, written for voice, harp and an expanded ensemble, and quite unlike anything else in the discography. Futurities is Steve Lacy at his most compositional: a full song cycle, staged with dance and lighting, in which Irene Aebi delivers Creeley's spare, halting lines over arrangements that leave enormous amounts of air around every phrase. The soprano saxophone functions as commentary rather than lead voice. It divided people at the time and continues to, largely because it refuses to behave like a jazz record while being made entirely by jazz musicians.
Original Hat Hut double LP with full booklet. Ambitious, austere and completely uncompromised.
Release notes
Recorded on 19, 20 November 1984 at IRCAM, Paris, France and on 14-18 January 1985 at Studio Pfister, Berikon, Switzerland (digital 2-track recording). Includes the postcard: STEVE LACY NINE: FUTURITIES
| A1 | Sad Advice | 3:40 | |
| A2 | The House | 4:20 | |
| A3 | Love Comes Quietly | 4:45 | |
| A4 | Old Song | 5:35 | |
| A5 | The Warning | 4:25 | |
| B1 | Juggler's Thought | 4:20 | |
| B2 | Jack's Blues | 4:20 | |
| B3 | Mind's Heart | 4:00 | |
| B4 | Chanson | 4:30 | |
| B5 | The End Of The Day | 5:55 | |
| C1 | A Folk Song | 3:35 | |
| C2 | The Traveller | 3:30 | |
| C3 | Oh No | 5:10 | |
| C4 | They Say | 4:00 | |
| C5 | Heaven | 6:30 | |
| D1 | Train Going By | 4:20 | |
| D2 | The Eye | 6:40 | |
| D3 | For No Clear Reason | 6:15 | |
| D4 | The Rhythm | 7:40 | |
| D5 | Night Time | 2:35 |
- Steve Potts
- Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone
- J.-J. Avenel
- Bass
- Oliver Johnson
- Drums, Gong, Glockenspiel
- Barry Wedgle
- Guitar
- Gyde Knebusch
- Harp
- Robert Creeley
- Lyrics By [Words]
- Kenneth Noland
- Painting
- Jef Gardner
- Piano
- Pia & Werner X. Uehlinger
- Producer
- Peter Pfister
- Recorded By
- Steve Lacy
- Soprano Saxophone, Music By
- George Lewis
- Trombone
- Irene Aebi
- Voice
